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Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Problems building on Win7
From: Raffi Enficiaud (raffi.enficiaud_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-02-24 12:02:05


Le 24/02/15 17:30, Steven Watanabe a écrit :
> AMDG
>
> On 02/24/2015 03:50 AM, Raffi Enficiaud wrote:
>>
>> Ok, so after your replies, I started digging into path.jam and
>> builtins.c. I put a trace in builtin_readlink in the response of the
>> DeviceIOControl (line 1885). Apparently the path coming into the
>> CreateFileA has an uppercase drive letter, while the one outputted by
>> the DeviceIOControl has a lowercase drive letter (see logs and patch).
>>
>
> That's odd. Does running "dir boost" show a lowercase
> drive? Anyway, I think the attached patch should fix
> the problem. Can you test it?

Dir shows an upper case drive (see log).
Your patch seems to do the trick (see logs). Thanks!

Best,
Raffi





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